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2016-04-24 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Bobby 2016-04-24 13:29|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 It doesn't take lots of troops.
It simply takes acknowledgement that war is something you engage in when legal and diplomatic means don't work.
That being the case lawyers (including JAGs), politicians and diplomats and rules should be kept away from the successful use of weapons and troops to implement a conclusion to the need for the war.

Posted by 3dc 2016-04-24 14:46|| 2016-04-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Or more simply, a successful war is the application of Darwin's laws to a region that doesn't acknowledge them.

Posted by 3dc 2016-04-24 14:48|| 2016-04-24 14:48|| Front Page Top

#3 It can be as simple as "Fire Purifies" no questions allowed.

Posted by 3dc 2016-04-24 14:49|| 2016-04-24 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 It probably helps to have clearly defined goals.

Posted by james 2016-04-24 14:57|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2016-04-24 14:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Why America ~~Fails to Win Wars~~ Surrenders

There, fixed that for you. (The next president Americans elected after Bush was a muslim who changed his name Hussein.)

Posted by Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-04-24 15:00|| 2016-04-24 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 We are too eager to believe the perfectability of every foreign nation, culture, and/or religion (guess who?) exposed to our ideals. Spmetimes you need to go in and break shit, then leave, as an example for others. It is not worth another American life to nation-build for the ignorant ungrateful goatfuckers

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-24 15:08|| 2016-04-24 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The writer is a fucking idiot. Blame the troops, blame the pentagon, don't blame to politicians that set the ROE, wanted to nation build across Afghanistan, never really wanted to win a hard war. So blame the easy ones, the troops that are fighting America's battles.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-04-24 15:11|| 2016-04-24 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Because we stick our noses into others people's business in places where we don't belong.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-04-24 15:30|| 2016-04-24 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Ditto #7.

#8 sort of.

The problem is two fold and both sides belong to the politicians.

A) Define the enemy.
B) Define what victory looks like.

The troops will gladly then answer the call and achieve the desired results.

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-24 17:07|| 2016-04-24 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 This may have something to do with the author's perspective:

On May 13, 2007, Bacevich's son, Andrew John Bacevich, was killed in action in Iraq by an improvised explosive device south of Samarra in Salah ad Din Governorate.[8] The younger Bacevich, 27, was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army,[9] assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-24 17:14|| 2016-04-24 17:14|| Front Page Top

#11 possible reasons are our poor ROE, our political duplicity, our lack of will to kill all enemy until they beg to surrender, engaging in wars without American strategic imperative...

Posted by airandee 2016-04-24 18:08|| 2016-04-24 18:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Too many individual wars run within the war. SOF goes one direction, White House runs drone zapp program and focused on EXFIL. Big green Army and USMC go another direction chasing bad guys. US Embassy and Foggy Bottom focused on diplomacy. Klingons focused on Klingons. Host Nation focused on the 'conflict after' and survival.

Nobody talking to one another. No unity of effort. No leadership.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-24 18:34|| 2016-04-24 18:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Besoeker, One would think after losing a son he would go after the confused policy, lack of strategic coordination, and constraining ROE.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-04-24 18:39|| 2016-04-24 18:39|| Front Page Top

#14 As a society our politicians (democrats) seem to have developed a willingness to lose for partisan game. Since they aren't held accountable for the duplicity in the fall of Vietnam or the fall of Iraq they will continue.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-04-24 19:36|| 2016-04-24 19:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Because they try to fight a 'clean and pretty' war.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-24 19:38|| 2016-04-24 19:38|| Front Page Top

#16 The following TED talk addresses one very interesting way to look at the challenges that face the American military - and offers one approach towards dealing with those challenges:

http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_peace#t-1405062

Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-04-24 22:30|| 2016-04-24 22:30|| Front Page Top

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